Google is a beautiful thing

While trying to find an image of the black horse flag that flew at the Anderson’s estate for years, I came a blog solely focused on Larz and Isabel Anderson! www.larzandisabelanderson.com The site is managed by Stephen T. (Skip) Moskey, someone who I have come across multiple times as the publisher of printed papers, image collections, and such. This site is a wealth of information on the happy couple as well as some tidbits of info on the built environment of the estate:

-The glass greenhouses were designed by Lord & Burnham, a prominent greenhouse design firm that still exists today as “Under Glass”

-This is one of the most beautiful (colored) photographs of Cupid’s fountain I have ever seen

-That Asian stone sculpture that sits at the top of the hill next to where the house once stood is called a Gorinto (五輪塔)
According to Skip, “a Gorinto is the Japanese interpretation of a type of Buddhist pagoda used as a memorial or burial marker” In the case of this burial marker, only the bottom 3 of 5 pieces still remain. Skip found 1 in another park in brookline but the 2nd to the top piece is missing. There’s a lot more info here: https://larzandisabelanderson.com/gilded-age-gorinto/and here: https://larzandisabelanderson.com/page/47/ 

-I found the highest possible resolution of the black horse flag too

While on this research collection high, I decided to investigate Brookline's Park Department website too. Thanks to the video that the town of Brookline’s Parks Department put out, Skip Moskey speaks in depth (almost 9 minutes!) about the park, the Anderson’s, and the changes that occurred on the estate over time. For example:

During World War 1, in the fashion of victory gardens, the polo field was turned into a potato field.

Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgxFRIAqsAg

“Although the garden and the house are no longer standing, the vestiges of what they created what and they left behind are available for anyone. I think the Anderson's would be very pleased and proud to know that the land that was so dear to them, that they had shaped over many many years into their perfect living environment, [is avail be to] the people in Brookline [who are] using this same land in ways consistent with how they want to I want to use during their lifetime. I think they would be very pleased.” -Skip Moskey